Fabien Roussel assures it: he has “no opponent left”. Not even Jean-Luc Mélenchon, with whom he regularly distances himself? Asked this Wednesday by France 2, the general secretary of the French Communist Party (PCF) plays appeasement.
“I think we should all be united to demonstrate on Thursday, November 10 with the unions,” he said, since a day of strike by the RATP is scheduled for that day, in particular to demand an increase in wages.
“Let’s be many tomorrow and let’s call to participate in these mobilizations, without invective among us,” pleads Fabien Roussel.
He recalls the measures shared by the communists and the rest of the New Popular Ecological and Social Union (Nupes) such as the “increase in the minimum wage to 1,600 euros.” And he indicates, incidentally, that “the united left” will defend the legal texts “in the National Assembly as in the Senate.”
‘Amazing support’
The former presidential candidate, however, recalls their “differences” on “strategy.” “We will never mix our voices with the extreme right,” he proclaims. A reference to the two motions of censure recently presented by La France insoumise (LFI) and voted by the National Association.
At the beginning of last November, the rebels presented a provision of this type as a reaction to a 49.3 drawn by the Government on the Social Security budget. Some socialists, but also Fabien Roussel, did not vote for him.
Jean-Luc Mélenchon responded with a blog post, naming as Nupes’ “internal adversaries” “the Dutch wing of the PS, the Jadot wing of EELV and Fabien Roussel.”
“Under the pretext of denying the RN votes, they actually end up, without daring to say so, supporting the Macron government by refusing its downfall,” wrote the leader of La France insoumise.
Before qualifying the election of the deputy from the North of “surprising support (and isolated to the PCF) in favor of Macron’s Social Security budget”.
Source: BFM TV
